The Book of the Salmon: In Two Parts... Usefully Illustrated with Numerous Coloured Engravings of Salmon-flies, and Salmon-fry |
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Page vii
... hands the salmon - rod . I tell him of what materials it is to be made ; of what size and shape it is to be ; and I describe the winch and lines best suited for it . I tell him then how to use it , whether for casting the fly ...
... hands the salmon - rod . I tell him of what materials it is to be made ; of what size and shape it is to be ; and I describe the winch and lines best suited for it . I tell him then how to use it , whether for casting the fly ...
Page x
... a letter soliciting at the hands of his Grace the Duke of Sutherland the honour of inscribing this little work to him , his Grace , with characteristic kindness , wrote to me as follows : PREFACE . xi " SIR , " Dunrobin , October.
... a letter soliciting at the hands of his Grace the Duke of Sutherland the honour of inscribing this little work to him , his Grace , with characteristic kindness , wrote to me as follows : PREFACE . xi " SIR , " Dunrobin , October.
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... hand and nearly impassable cliff - paths impede the foot - and the weapons of conquest a frail rod , of fairy , wand- like joints , a casting line , and hook , of despicable fineness and size ! Great and suggestive of good is the wonder ...
... hand and nearly impassable cliff - paths impede the foot - and the weapons of conquest a frail rod , of fairy , wand- like joints , a casting line , and hook , of despicable fineness and size ! Great and suggestive of good is the wonder ...
Page 6
... advantages of very long and very powerful rods in wide rivers , and in strong hands ; and I admit , cæteris paribus , that a strong man , six feet in height , with a rod twenty feet long , ADVANTAGES OF LONG RODS . 7 and winch and line.
... advantages of very long and very powerful rods in wide rivers , and in strong hands ; and I admit , cæteris paribus , that a strong man , six feet in height , with a rod twenty feet long , ADVANTAGES OF LONG RODS . 7 and winch and line.
Page 9
... hands of a well - trained adept , thirty yards may be thrown with it , without danger to its top - joint or small - pieces , and such a cast is sufficiently long for all useful intents and purposes , and the strongest salmon may be ...
... hands of a well - trained adept , thirty yards may be thrown with it , without danger to its top - joint or small - pieces , and such a cast is sufficiently long for all useful intents and purposes , and the strongest salmon may be ...
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